Profiling a Warehouse-Scale Computer

Svilen Kanev, Juan Pablo Darago, Kim M. Hazelwood, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Tipp Moseley, Gu-Yeon Wei, David M. Brooks

Abstract: Data centers are quickly becoming the platform of choice for modern applications. In order to understand how data center software utilizes the hardware and to improve future server processor performance, the authors profiled more than 20,000 Google machines over a three-year period, while serving the requests of billions of users.